Through dramaturgy consultations and editing supervision, this program will address the challenges and concerns in your rough cut and offer an effective plan for moving forward to help you make the film you want to make.
MIDPOINT Editing Room 2021-2022
Features
Archive
Benefits
A post-production program tailored to the needs of your project
For teams of editors and directors
- get a second opinion on your material
- cement your film's structure or explore new possibilities in the material
- discover the dramaturgy in the editing room
- profit from supervision of the editing process
- strengthen teamwork between editor and director
Editing Room for Women
- Special offer for women editors: women editors applying in a team will get 50% off the regular fee for both Editing Room 1 and Editing Room 2
Editing Room - FOCUS UKRAINE
- Special offer for Ukrainian projects in post-production stage: tailor-made online dramaturgy in the editing room consultations for teams of Ukrainian filmmakers (directors, editors, producers) with a feature or short film
- No participation fee
Projects
Participating films in post-production
Eternity Package
Bobby is a struggling funeral agent in a small Bulgarian town whose life is collapsing: his wife is leaving him, his corrupt competitor is monopolizing all the corpses in town, and his only client ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Jonathan HeidelbergerMagdelena IlievaMagdelena IlievaMagdelena IlievaJonathan Heidelberger
Chrysanthemum Day
A story of relations between a young medical doctor and her patient – an old “flower-woman”, known as a healer, who mysteriously survives a nuclear explosion having completely lost her memory and ...
The Face of Honour
During the WWII, boy is chased by a Muslim paramilitary fascist unit, which had just killed his parents and burned down his house. Running for his life, a boy finds a temporary hiding place in a ...
The Glass House
A young girl disappears with her older boyfriend. Victoria, the mother of the missing girl, has a seemingly perfect life. It is suspected that the daughter is involved in drug trafficking, but ...
U Are the Universe
Future. Ukrainian space trucker Andriy Melnyk transports nuclear waste on the cargo ship to the abandoned Jupiter's satellite Callisto. During his routine flight, the Earth explodes. Pieces of the ...
When We Were 15
15-year old Tonia is the new girl at school, where she seeks refuge from her abusive boyfriend. Despite her visible shyness, she quickly makes friends with her self-confident classmate Lera and gets ...
Participants
Editing Trainee
Tutors
Professional editors with unique dramaturgy skills
Ivo Trajkov
Czech Republic/North Macedonia
Ivo Trajkov works as a director, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Macedonia and graduated from FAMU in Prague. He has written/directed 8 feature-length films in several ...
Complete bio
Tomas Doruska
Czech Republic
Editor, director and producer Tomáš Doruška was born in 1977 in Valašské Meziříčí. He graduated from FAMU’s Editing Department. As an editor, he has participated in about 50 projects, both feature ...
Complete bio
References
Successful films
Selection of our successful alumni
Structure
The MIDPOINT Editing Room program is organized as a two-stage service
Fee
Editing Room 1
300 EUR
per project
Editing Room 2
TBC with the projects individually
Who can apply
- teams of editors and directors with a feature film in rough-cut stage
Application requirements
Materials are to be sent to jiri.pecinovsky@midpoint-institute.eu.
Required materials:
- CV of the team members (director and editor): max 800 characters each (in PDF)
- Photo of team members (director and editor)
- Rough cut with time code (link for download)
- Shooting script
- Post-production schedule, including any obligatory deadlines (in PDF)
- Motivation letter, including anything you'd like us to know about the project, your concerns, hopes, etc.(in PDF, max 2 pages)
- Optional: rough cut of unused scenes with time codes (link for download)
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